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Music William Byrd composed "consort songs" with viol consort accompaniment, 1588 collection of Psalms, Sonnets, and Songs Thomas Morley's songs may have been used in Shakespeare's plays, well-known song "It was a Lover and his Lass" from his First Book of Ayres, 1607 Michael Cavendish published one volume of madrigals and lute songs in 1598 Francis Pilkington was a lute song composer Robert Jones composed 5 books of ayres in the time period 1600-1610 Tobias Hume composed serious and comic songs Philip Rosseter was a prolific song composer and friend of Campion, a few of his lute songs are still performed Henry Lawes was a prolific song composer, set texts by court poets (Herring, Suckling, and Carew) for his vocal works
Art
While there may not have been hany notable artists from England in the early 17th century, there were notable collectors duning that time. English nobility was the most important group of collectors of European art, i.e. King Charles I (the most notable), Thomas Howard, the 21st Earl of Arundel.
Other parts of the world:
Music:Compositions Claudio Monteverdi:
Claudio Monteverdi , 1567-1643, Italian composer; first great figure in the history of opera. Monteverdi's first opera, Orfeo, performed at Mantua in 1607, was revolutionary in its combination of dramatic power and expressive orchestral accompaniment. Of his next opera, Arianna (1608), only the celebrated lament, which Monteverdi himself arranged as a five-part madrigal, is extant. He was among the first composers to use the tremolo and pizzicato effects with strings, and his music shows a strong sense of modern tonality. In his operas he used large orchestras, whose members he grouped into specific combinations to portray characters on stage.
Pietro Francesco Cavalli:
Pietro Francesco Cavalli , 1602-76, Italian composer, whose real name was Caletti-Bruni; pupil of Monteverdi, whom he succeeded as choirmaster of St. Mark's, Venice. He wrote many operas, including Didone (1641), Giasone (1649), Serse (1654), and Ercole Amante (1662), all of which show the full development of the bel canto aria.
Art Rembrandt:
A Dutch painter and etcher. In 1632 he produced the celebrated Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp. Yearning for recognition as a biblical and mythological painter, in 1635 he produced The Sacrifice of Isaac and in 1636 Danaë. In 1634 he completed his largest painting, the extraordinary but controversial The Militia Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq (known as The Night Watch), which was a watershed in his life and art. His late works exhibit a lively brushwork and a new treatment of light. In addition to being an innovator, he was an acute observer of life and a sensitive renderer of those observations in his drawings, etchings, and paintings. The human figure, Rembrandt’s central subject, contributes to the sense of a shared dialogue between viewer and artist, the foundation of Rembrandt’s greatness and of his popularity today.
Diego Velázquez:
Velázquez is universally acknowledged as one of the world’s greatest artists. The naturalistic style in which he was trained provided a language for the expression of his remarkable power of observation in portraying both the living model and still life. Stimulated by the study of 16th-century Venetian painting, he developed from a master of faithful likeness and characterization into the creator of masterpieces of visual impression unique in his time. With brilliant diversity of brushstrokes and subtle harmonies of colour, he achieved effects of form and texture, space, light, and atmosphere, that make him the chief forerunner of 19th-century French Impressionism.
Music
William Byrd composed "consort songs" with viol consort accompaniment, 1588 collection of Psalms, Sonnets, and Songs
Thomas Morley's songs may have been used in Shakespeare's plays, well-known song "It was a Lover and his Lass" from his First Book of Ayres, 1607
Michael Cavendish published one volume of madrigals and lute songs in 1598
Francis Pilkington was a lute song composer
Robert Jones composed 5 books of ayres in the time period 1600-1610
Tobias Hume composed serious and comic songs
Philip Rosseter was a prolific song composer and friend of Campion, a few of his lute songs are still performed
Henry Lawes was a prolific song composer, set texts by court poets (Herring, Suckling, and Carew) for his vocal works
Art
While there may not have been hany notable artists from England in the early 17th century, there were notable collectors duning that time. English nobility was the most important group of collectors of European art, i.e. King Charles I (the most notable), Thomas Howard, the 21st Earl of Arundel.
Other parts of the world:
Music:Compositions
Claudio Monteverdi:
Claudio Monteverdi , 1567-1643, Italian composer; first great figure in the history of opera. Monteverdi's first opera, Orfeo, performed at Mantua in 1607, was revolutionary in its combination of dramatic power and expressive orchestral accompaniment. Of his next opera, Arianna (1608), only the celebrated lament, which Monteverdi himself arranged as a five-part madrigal, is extant. He was among the first composers to use the tremolo and pizzicato effects with strings, and his music shows a strong sense of modern tonality. In his operas he used large orchestras, whose members he grouped into specific combinations to portray characters on stage.
Pietro Francesco Cavalli:
Pietro Francesco Cavalli , 1602-76, Italian composer, whose real name was Caletti-Bruni; pupil of Monteverdi, whom he succeeded as choirmaster of St. Mark's, Venice. He wrote many operas, including Didone (1641), Giasone (1649), Serse (1654), and Ercole Amante (1662), all of which show the full development of the bel canto aria.
Art
Rembrandt:
A Dutch painter and etcher. In 1632 he produced the celebrated Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp. Yearning for recognition as a biblical and mythological painter, in 1635 he produced The Sacrifice of Isaac and in 1636 Danaë. In 1634 he completed his largest painting, the extraordinary but controversial The Militia Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq (known as The Night Watch), which was a watershed in his life and art. His late works exhibit a lively brushwork and a new treatment of light. In addition to being an innovator, he was an acute observer of life and a sensitive renderer of those observations in his drawings, etchings, and paintings. The human figure, Rembrandt’s central subject, contributes to the sense of a shared dialogue between viewer and artist, the foundation of Rembrandt’s greatness and of his popularity today.
Diego Velázquez:
Velázquez is universally acknowledged as one of the world’s greatest artists. The naturalistic style in which he was trained provided a language for the expression of his remarkable power of observation in portraying both the living model and still life. Stimulated by the study of 16th-century Venetian painting, he developed from a master of faithful likeness and characterization into the creator of masterpieces of visual impression unique in his time. With brilliant diversity of brushstrokes and subtle harmonies of colour, he achieved effects of form and texture, space, light, and atmosphere, that make him the chief forerunner of 19th-century French Impressionism.